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Sights to see in Texas
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My co-workers didn’t find it that funny. The pictures seemed ordinary to them. They were trying to figure out what refinery it was in the background of the policeman on horse. They also thought there must be a police car somewhere to pull over the speeders that the policeman on the horse was getting on his radar. Never occured to them that photograph might be stagged! :hmm
As far as the cow at the carwash, they thought everyone washed their cows that way on the way to what every livestock event they were going! :duh
Gee, I really am different than the Texans I work with! :head
don
As far as the cow at the carwash, they thought everyone washed their cows that way on the way to what every livestock event they were going! :duh
Gee, I really am different than the Texans I work with! :head
don
Don't laugh Sara!
This is just Sinky washing his ride before heading to work rofl
This is just Sinky washing his ride before heading to work rofl
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His ride? I thought that was his lunch.Merlin said:Don't laugh Sara!
This is just Sinky washing his ride before heading to work rofl
Well, better ride than Bride. ;-)
The Merl said:This is just Sinky washing his ride before heading to work rofl
Deepster said:
Hardy-Har-Har. Please don't make fun of my date. Her picture was a lot different on the internet.
But seriously folks, I'm proud to say that none of those pictures are out of the ordinary...by Texas standards of course. And no, that horseback radar cop wasn't staged at all. I've nearly been nabbed by cronies. They'll literally just stop you on foot further down the road and pull you over. Nothin' like being pulled over by foot patrol. Ha ha ha ha. Hell, I've even been pulled over in a bike, by a bike cop downtown. Talk about dork-ville.
I'll try to sort through some vacation pics that truly captures Texas in such a way as the ones above. Good POST, Sanderoo. Unfortunately, I've been too loving among all of my deeperchums and can't give out some rep for a while.
sinkweight said:
yeah i though they were amusing.. along with those of Miles' from Africa.. hehehehehe
Sanderoo? funny... at home i call most things with a "roo" ending.. chuckled at that.
island_sands said:at home i call most things with a "roo" ending.. chuckled at that.
Really? I call my sixth graders "-poo" after their names when I'm feeling really sarcastic. You can instantly tell how much they appreciate it from the flying-dagger looks.
Oldsarge said:Really? I call my sixth graders "-poo" after their names when I'm feeling really sarcastic. You can instantly tell how much they appreciate it from the flying-dagger looks.
lol! i also use that but in terms of endearment... "kitty-poo" , Lizzie-poo, etc.
:girlie
Haaaaaar
We have guys that would pay big bucks to fit one of those to their 4 cylinder Rice Burners, just paint it so it looks like carbon fiber they wouldnt know the differance, anything to make it look like it goes fast.
Pitty they cant drive and are allways the ones doing 10k under the limit in the fast lane.
If only forward mounted and anti Tank/car Guns were legal ( well only for me)
Crusty
We have guys that would pay big bucks to fit one of those to their 4 cylinder Rice Burners, just paint it so it looks like carbon fiber they wouldnt know the differance, anything to make it look like it goes fast.
Pitty they cant drive and are allways the ones doing 10k under the limit in the fast lane.
If only forward mounted and anti Tank/car Guns were legal ( well only for me)
Crusty
One of the few bright spots about Texas is that Molly Ivins is there to report it. What is sad is what she has to report.
COMMENTARY
Never Steal a Turkey in Lubbock, and Other Tales of Texas Justice
Racism, 'Tuff on Crime' judges and gutless politicians warp the system.
By Molly Ivins
Molly Ivins is the author, most recently, of "Who Let the Dogs In? Incredible Political Animals I Have Known" (Random House, 2004).
June 20, 2005
The U.S. Supreme Court rules yet again that another Texas case was wrongfully decided — this time because 19 of 20 blacks had been knocked off the jury pool — and I'm asked to explain what's wrong with criminal justice in Texas, in 750 words. Sure, no problem.
I don't like to be cynical, but one can get a little tired after a long time watching justice meted out in this state. The story doesn't change much, and nothing seems to get better. But for what it's worth, here's what's at the bottom of it.
(1) Racism. In 1998, James Byrd Jr. was dragged to death behind a pickup truck for being black in Jasper. Two of the three men responsible got the death penalty. This was not first time in Texas a white man was given the death penalty for killing a black man. It was the second.
(2) More racism. In 1999, about one-fifth of the adult black citizens of Tulia, population 5,000, were arrested and accused of cocaine dealing on the uncorroborated testimony of a bent narc and notorious liar. No one even stopped to ask how a town that size could support 46 cocaine dealers until a reporter from the Texas Observer showed up.
(3) We elect our prosecutors. There are 254 counties in Texas, nearly every one with its own elected district attorney. The way to get elected is to be "Tuff on Crime." The way to lose is to be "Soft on Crime." In the big cities — Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, among the 10 largest in the nation — we get the usual plead-out mill: perp's public defender advises him to cop to reduced charges, anything to avoid a trial.
But in the small towns and rural areas where heavy crime is rare, a D.A. has to whup on whoever gets caught. Sometime in the '80s, a guy in Lubbock stole 12 frozen turkeys. They were recovered, still frozen. Not only no damage, but no defrost. The guy bought 75 years, which works out to 6.3 years per bird. Don't steal a turkey in Lubbock.
(4) We elect our judges. Only way to get elected is to be Tuff on Crime. Only way to lose is to be Soft on Crime. In the Case of the Sleeping Lawyer, a guy on death row appealed on grounds his lawyer had slept through his trial, thus providing him with less than adequate counsel. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that even though the lawyer slept through much of the trial, he didn't sleep during the important parts, so the conviction stood.
(5) An appeal process that isn't worth squat. If you're in, you can't get out. If you draw the death penalty in Texas, you effectively have 30 days to present new evidence. After that, you're toast. Doesn't matter if someone else confesses on Day 31. Doesn't even matter if you could provide DNA evidence proving it wasn't you. (The Legislature is still trying to fix that one.) Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are of the opinion that actual innocence is not necessarily a bar to execution (Herrera vs. Collins). It took a near-miracle to get the Tulia drug defendants out.
(6) Gutless politicians. Texas runs the largest prison system on Earth. Texas executes the retarded, the insane and people who were children when they committed their crimes, until the Supreme Court stopped that only three months ago. Texas executes foreigners without notifying their home countries. Every poll shows Texans do not want to execute people in these categories. Politicians are afraid to stop it for fear someone will say they're Soft on Crime.
You've met Labrador retrievers brighter than some of the people we execute. We had a guy on the row who thought he was going to die because he couldn't read. He spent hours on his bunk trying to memorize the ABCs. Never could do it. We execute people easily as crazy as the one in Florida who spent years crawling around on all fours, barking, under the impression that he was a black dog in the seventh circle of hell. But I'm sure they understand right from wrong, and know why they're being punished. Arf.
(7) A bent system. For years Texas used an expert witness most people called "Dr. Death." Never saw a perp he couldn't guarantee would be a mortal menace for the rest of his days. Only one solution: Kill him. Just one little hitch: In many of those cases, Dr. Death never examined the accused, never talked to the accused, never got near the accused. He was reprimanded twice in the 1980s by the American Psychiatric Assn., then expelled from the group in 1995 because his evidence was found unethical and untrustworthy.
In another case, the Supremes threw out the death sentence because the psychologist said the perp was a danger on account of being Latino. Then there was the Houston police lab, so unbelievably sorry, sloppy and just plain maliciously wrong that the courts had to throw out a bunch of those cases too.
But please don't get the idea that just because a few of these errors were caught on long-shot appeals, justice actually works here. We know about so many more miscarriages it would make you vomit, and can't even guess at how many we don't know about.
I'm at 932 words and I haven't even gotten to the 5th Circuit, the parole board, why you can spend months in jail without ever seeing a lawyer …
COMMENTARY
Never Steal a Turkey in Lubbock, and Other Tales of Texas Justice
Racism, 'Tuff on Crime' judges and gutless politicians warp the system.
By Molly Ivins
Molly Ivins is the author, most recently, of "Who Let the Dogs In? Incredible Political Animals I Have Known" (Random House, 2004).
June 20, 2005
The U.S. Supreme Court rules yet again that another Texas case was wrongfully decided — this time because 19 of 20 blacks had been knocked off the jury pool — and I'm asked to explain what's wrong with criminal justice in Texas, in 750 words. Sure, no problem.
I don't like to be cynical, but one can get a little tired after a long time watching justice meted out in this state. The story doesn't change much, and nothing seems to get better. But for what it's worth, here's what's at the bottom of it.
(1) Racism. In 1998, James Byrd Jr. was dragged to death behind a pickup truck for being black in Jasper. Two of the three men responsible got the death penalty. This was not first time in Texas a white man was given the death penalty for killing a black man. It was the second.
(2) More racism. In 1999, about one-fifth of the adult black citizens of Tulia, population 5,000, were arrested and accused of cocaine dealing on the uncorroborated testimony of a bent narc and notorious liar. No one even stopped to ask how a town that size could support 46 cocaine dealers until a reporter from the Texas Observer showed up.
(3) We elect our prosecutors. There are 254 counties in Texas, nearly every one with its own elected district attorney. The way to get elected is to be "Tuff on Crime." The way to lose is to be "Soft on Crime." In the big cities — Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, among the 10 largest in the nation — we get the usual plead-out mill: perp's public defender advises him to cop to reduced charges, anything to avoid a trial.
But in the small towns and rural areas where heavy crime is rare, a D.A. has to whup on whoever gets caught. Sometime in the '80s, a guy in Lubbock stole 12 frozen turkeys. They were recovered, still frozen. Not only no damage, but no defrost. The guy bought 75 years, which works out to 6.3 years per bird. Don't steal a turkey in Lubbock.
(4) We elect our judges. Only way to get elected is to be Tuff on Crime. Only way to lose is to be Soft on Crime. In the Case of the Sleeping Lawyer, a guy on death row appealed on grounds his lawyer had slept through his trial, thus providing him with less than adequate counsel. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that even though the lawyer slept through much of the trial, he didn't sleep during the important parts, so the conviction stood.
(5) An appeal process that isn't worth squat. If you're in, you can't get out. If you draw the death penalty in Texas, you effectively have 30 days to present new evidence. After that, you're toast. Doesn't matter if someone else confesses on Day 31. Doesn't even matter if you could provide DNA evidence proving it wasn't you. (The Legislature is still trying to fix that one.) Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are of the opinion that actual innocence is not necessarily a bar to execution (Herrera vs. Collins). It took a near-miracle to get the Tulia drug defendants out.
(6) Gutless politicians. Texas runs the largest prison system on Earth. Texas executes the retarded, the insane and people who were children when they committed their crimes, until the Supreme Court stopped that only three months ago. Texas executes foreigners without notifying their home countries. Every poll shows Texans do not want to execute people in these categories. Politicians are afraid to stop it for fear someone will say they're Soft on Crime.
You've met Labrador retrievers brighter than some of the people we execute. We had a guy on the row who thought he was going to die because he couldn't read. He spent hours on his bunk trying to memorize the ABCs. Never could do it. We execute people easily as crazy as the one in Florida who spent years crawling around on all fours, barking, under the impression that he was a black dog in the seventh circle of hell. But I'm sure they understand right from wrong, and know why they're being punished. Arf.
(7) A bent system. For years Texas used an expert witness most people called "Dr. Death." Never saw a perp he couldn't guarantee would be a mortal menace for the rest of his days. Only one solution: Kill him. Just one little hitch: In many of those cases, Dr. Death never examined the accused, never talked to the accused, never got near the accused. He was reprimanded twice in the 1980s by the American Psychiatric Assn., then expelled from the group in 1995 because his evidence was found unethical and untrustworthy.
In another case, the Supremes threw out the death sentence because the psychologist said the perp was a danger on account of being Latino. Then there was the Houston police lab, so unbelievably sorry, sloppy and just plain maliciously wrong that the courts had to throw out a bunch of those cases too.
But please don't get the idea that just because a few of these errors were caught on long-shot appeals, justice actually works here. We know about so many more miscarriages it would make you vomit, and can't even guess at how many we don't know about.
I'm at 932 words and I haven't even gotten to the 5th Circuit, the parole board, why you can spend months in jail without ever seeing a lawyer …
Very true. Texas "law" is a very scary realm. And that's coming from a whitey. I love our people, but hate our politics. Politicians aren't people. It's conniving politics that make Texas the "loophole" state.
sinkweight said:
Yes, even if they were female. I forget the woman's name, but she was on Texas death row for years and had claimed to be saved and had done all sorts of good works while in prison. Religious leaders like Pat Robertson (OK, I don't think he is actually religious, but millions of people seem to have bought his act) and others pleaded for her to be spared. But according to people who were there, Dubya mocked her by adopting a woman's voice and saying "oh don't kill me, don't kill me" or something like that. She was executed.
Whatever your views of capital punishment and being a citizen of one of the only remaining nations that does it, I would prefer a leader who took it more seriously rather than an occasion for mirth.
If he likes killing so much, its too bad he used his Daddy's influence to avoid joining me in Vietnam. It was really fun and games over there, except that the victims could shoot back.
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